Adirondack Poems - Poems about Adirondack

Autumnal New York

...Shimmering in a chilly mist,
skyscrapers overlooking NYC.
August left into September's cooler mornings,
schoolchildren dressed in plaid and Hush Puppies.

In Central Park the leaves are a green-...

sands of Heraclee

...Peter (my bf) and I are at Heraclee beach for the weekend.
It’s a little sliver of heaven, about 11 miles south of Saint Tropez.
It’s too early in the season to swim - being breezy and 72°f -
but ...

Before I Go

...Smile at me one last time
Send me on my way to rhyme 
The days I'm at my thinking spot
Are now more often than they're not
My seat, an Adirondack chair
It's one of two just sitting there
The se...

Departed

...The sun hides behind the rippling wave-like clouds
The wind slinks like a hungry cat
quiet and soft not bending my red zinnias
heart shaped flowers in my front yard
And the day is an icecube in s...

Daisies Gladiolas and Hollyhocks

...monarchs lead the petite butterflies
daisies, gladiolas and hollyhocks smile
two welcoming Adirondack chairs
under yellow and orange umbrellas
welcome my friend to my garden
where foxglove and i...

Bantu

...Glaring white lake stretches up to bushes’ shades.
Adirondack chairs and canoes align in grace.   





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Bird Convention

...The red Adirondack chair called birds in from the north
Eastern, western and southern birds appeared too.
What is it about this chair? They asked each other.
With tweets and trills they discussed ...

My Gramma S Couch

...Won’t you please take me back
To the brown couch at my Gramma’s house 
With the big gold-framed antique mirror over it
And hand me Grampa’s old transistor radio
Covered in leather with glorious k...

The Mad Fiddler of the North, Part Ii

......His performances went for hours,
even when people drifted off,
he’d kept playing in the tavern
regardless of what others thought.

He would wind down like some old clock,
sometime playing st...

September 19, 2019

...SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

We were deep in the forest
on our way to Tupper Lake
It was an early fall morning full of
sunshine and song from a beautiful
Spanish singer whose soulful caress
can cause a...

Scaron

...An ordered massif of concrete
in the green Adirondack range,
crumbling Greek amphitheater,
it’s presence strikes the mind as strange.

The chips and cracks throughout the tiers,
the weather wor...

Winding Down

...indian summer
the last of
fun cottage weekends

adirondack chairs
overlook
september sunset



AP: 3rd place 2020

Posted August 2, 2020...

On the Arm of the Adirondack Chair

...On the arm of the adirondack chair
(painted unafraid purple by a pale pink hand),
All new-penny cinnabar shine,
Noble as any bald eagle,
Ahead, which I guess may be side-to-side,
He watches tall...

Summer Dreamland

...My bathing suit under a sundress
I race to the end of the dock
where my adirondack chair calls to me

A canoe glides by in the distance
and a blue heron is poised for breakfast...
the placid la...

On the Trail

...Underneath the looming hemlocks,
the incline makes each step a strain,
up sandy earth and broken stone,
but I see sunlight up ahead.

Emerge upon a high ridgeline,
underfoot now is all bedrock,...

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